The Ridgeway National Trail travels for 87 miles (139km) through the North Wessex Downs and the Chilterns Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty in southeast England

Nature reserves

Scarp face of the Chilterns © Natural England

The following reserves are adjacent or near to The Ridgeway. 

Reserve 

Nearest settlement  Distance from The Ridgeway Grid reference
Fyfield Down (National Nature Reserve) Avebury on the Trail SU128708
Clouts Wood Wroughton 2 miles (northwest of Barbury Castle) SU135800
Lardon Chase, the Holies and Lough Down Streatley

Just south or west of the Trail

SU588809 and SU588813
Hartslock Goring-on-Thames 1 mile (southeast from railway or via Thames Path) SU616796
Warburg Maidensgrove 3 miles (east of Nuffield) SU720880
Aston Rowant (National Nature Reserve) Lewknor on the Trail SU731968
Chinnor Hill Chinnor on the Trail SP766003
Yoesden Bank Bledlow Ridge 2 miles (south of Lodge Hill) SU789980
Bottom Wood Studley Green 3 miles (south of Lodge Hill) SU795957
Butlers Hangings West Wycombe 3 miles (southeast of Lodge Hill) SU817962
Brush Hill Princes Risborough on the Trail SP820035
Grangelands and Pulpit Hill Princes Risborough on the Trail SP829052
Coombe Hill Wendover on the Trail SP849067
Bacombe Hill Wendover on the Trail SP860073
Weston Turville Reservoir Wendover 1½ miles (north of Wendover)  SP864095
Dancersend Wendover 1 miles (west of Hastoe) SP900095
Wilstone Reservoir Wilstone 3 miles (north of Hastoe) SP905130
Startop's End Reservoir Marsworth 3 miles (north of Wigginton) SP918138
Marsworth Reservoir Marsworth 3 miles (north of Wigginton SP922137
Aldbury Nowers Aldbury on the Trail SP950130
College Lake Pitstone 1 miles (west of Pitstone Hill)  SP934140